Liberia’s electoral commission on Sunday, announced that former footballer, George Weah and incumbent Vice-President, Joseph Boakai, will face each other in a runoff poll for the presidency in November.
National Elections Commission Chairman, Jerome Korkoya, told journalists that 1,550,923 votes had been counted and turnout was 74.52%.
Weah polled 39.0% of the votes, while Boakai scored 29.1%.
This left both candidates well short of the 50% mark required to be declared outright winner from the first round of voting held on Tuesday.
Three other candidates took a significant share of votes, with veteran opposition leader, Charles Brumskine, at 9.8%; former Coca-Cola executive, Alexander Cummings, at 7.1%; and former-warlord-turned-preacher, Prince Johnson, at 7.0%.
